[B-Greek] 1 Cor 1:26
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Thu Mar 17 08:31:57 EST 2005
Kerry Yankowy wrote:
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>"BLEPETE GAR THN KLHSIN hUMWN, ADELFOI, hOTI OU POLLOI SOFOI KATA SARKA, OU POLLOI DUNATOI, OU POLLOI EUGENEIS"
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>The verb BLEPETE could either be in the indicative mood or in the imperative mood. Although the difference may not bear much on the meaning, I think it is important enough to at least consider.
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/ I think it probably is simply an indicative, but the examples you use
below don't really seem all that imperative to me. If they had an
exclamation point at the end, perhaps the translator was trying to
communicate an imperative idea- but as the sentences stand, they don't
seem different from the indicative example you gave./
>But, the ESV, NASB, and NIV all translate the verb in the imperative mood:
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>ESV: "For consider your calling, brothers:..."
>NASB: "For consider your calling, brethren,..."
>NIV: "Brothers, think of what you were when you were called."
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Perhaps you could help me out by saying how these verses seem imperative
to you given their present punctuation.
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Jim West
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